An Endogenous Murine Leukemia Viral Genome Contaminant in a Commercial RT-PCR Kit is Amplified Using Standard Primers for XMRV

<p>Abstract</p> <p>During pilot studies to investigate the presence of viral RNA of xenotropic murine leukemia virus (MLV)-related virus (XMRV) infection in sera from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients in Japan, a positive band was frequently detected at the expected product s...

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Main Authors: Miyazawa Takayuki, Furuta Rika A, Sato Eiji
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-12-01
Series:Retrovirology
Online Access:http://www.retrovirology.com/content/7/1/110